11500668

Page Fault Support for Virtual Machine Network Accelerators

PublishedNovember 15, 2022
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3. The method of claim 2, wherein the page fault is generated responsive to the memory page of the first buffer being not present in the physical memory of the computer system.

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6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of buffers are allocated by the driver of the network accelerator device, and wherein the driver of the network accelerator device is executed by a guest operating system of a virtual machine running on the computer system.

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10. The system of claim 9, wherein the page fault is generated responsive to the memory page of the first buffer being not present in the physical memory of the computer system.

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13. The system of claim 8, wherein the plurality of buffers are allocated by the driver of the network accelerator device, and wherein the driver of the network accelerator device is executed by a guest operating system of a virtual machine running on the computer system.

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17. The non-transitory computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the page fault is generated responsive to the memory page of the first buffer being not present in the physical memory of the computer system.

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November 15, 2022

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Michael Tsirkin

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